Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Round Up the Usual Peacocks
by Donna Andrews
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kevin, Meg’s cyber-savvy nephew who lives in the basement, comes to her with a problem. He’s become involved as the techie for a true-crime podcast, one that focuses on Virginia cold cases and unsolved crimes. And he thinks their podcast has hit a nerve with someone . . . one of the podcast team has had a brush with death that Kevin thinks was an attempted murder, not an accident.
Kevin rather sheepishly asks for Meg’s help in checking out the people involved in a couple of the cases. “Given your ability to find out stuff online, why do you need MY help?”
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(Meg Langslow Mysteries)
Red Rain Omnibus Volume 1 Boxed Set
by Rachel Newhouse, David Hartung
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dive into this fast-paced sci-fi series that’s perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and LEFT BEHIND.
Would you end the world if it meant saving your family? The year is 2075. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities – or suffer the consequences.
Stripped of her rights for refusing to assimilate, sixteen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna has grown up in a religious containment camp. When her father is summoned to work on a remote Martian base, she thinks they may have found a haven of tolerance. That is until she discovers they’re stationed on the same base where her brother mysteriously died two years before. Searching for answers, she stumbles across the plans for a chemical superweapon and must decide whether to return to Earth – or let the planet burn.
Faithless in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don’t add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body—but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things?
As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder.
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(In Death Mysteries)
“N” is for Noose
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff’s office–a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist’s widow didn’t doubt the coroner’s report. But what Selma couldn’t accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life…
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(Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
The Hidden One
by Linda Castillo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley…
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(Kate Burkholder Mysteries)
Of Blood and Bone
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley…
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(Chronicles of The One)
This Was a Man
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Harry Clifton’s story began in 1920, as a dock worker in England, and now he is set to write his magnum opus. As he reflects on his days, the lives of his family continue to unfold, unravel, and intertwine in ways no one could have imagined . . .
Harry’s wife Emma, who just completed her time at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, receives a surprise call from Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile, Giles Barrington discovers a shocking truth about his wife, Karin. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank, but only after Hakim Bishara’s abrupt resignation…
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(The Clifton Chronicles)
Finding Truth
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A collection of fantasy, dystopian, super hero, and historical stories to entertain any teen (or adult)!
BRIGGLETON’S CHOIR: How will he handle the numerous life-changing conflicts coming his way, including the fact that his new friend is a Jew wanted by the Nazis? Will Alfonso be able to stand up for what’s right for the first time in his life?Will he find his voice?
ABANDON HOPE: When Hope Spencer is thirteen years old, she and her mother move to the tiny community of Cutters Notch in forested southwestern Indiana to hide from Hope’s dangerous and abusive father.
A CONFESSION OF FAITH: Facing execution for treason, eighteen-year-old Faith Webber recalls her remarkable journey.
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS: If you had a superpower, what would it be? Would you use it for good, or would you use it for revenge?
The Redemption of Time
by Baoshu
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
Granted a healthy clone body by the Trisolarans, Yun has spent his very long life in exile as a traitor to the human race. Nearing the end of his existence at last, he suddenly receives another reprieve—and another regeneration.
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(The Three-Body Problem Mysteries)
Kingdom of the Blind
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?
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(A Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries)
GWEN SLADE, BOUNTY HUNTER
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Bounty hunter Gwen Slade always gets her man. Until she meets charming outlaw Jordie Kidd. After Jordie saves her family, she finds she can’t in good conscience turn him in, even if he is worth a thousand dollars dead or alive. Instead she sets her sights on the meanest, most-wanted gang in Kansas. Gwen always works alone until she goes after the gang then finds herself partnering with an unlikely source. This time around, not only her life, but her heart is on the line.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice
by Waverly Curtis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aspiring P.I. Geri Sullivan’s new case has got her talking Chihuahua, Pepe, hot under the collar. Wealthy widow Lucille Carpenter left her entire fortune to her beloved dogs, and someone is trying to poison them. Anyone who would hurt a perro is lower than a cucaracha in Pepe’s book. But when Geri and Pepe investigate, they discover that it’s not just the coddled canines who are in danger. Now there are human targets too.
At the lavish Carpenter manor, Pepe digs for clues among the pampered pooches, bitter relatives, suspicious staff, and larcenous lawyers. But there’s only one diminutive detective smart enough to save the day–and the dogs. . .
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(Barking Detective Mysteries)
Karen Kingsbury True Crime Novels
by Karen Kingsbury
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Four chilling true crime novels by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter.
Final Vows: Murder, Madness, and Twisted Justice in California
Deadly Pretender: The Double Life of David Miller
The Snake and the Spider: Abduction and Murder in Daytona Beach
Missy’s Murder: Passion, Betrayal, and Murder in Southern California
Death Sentence
by Joe Sharkey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion – and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion.
Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A small town hides a big secret… Who killed Emily Vaughn? A girl with a secret…
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever.
An unsolved murder… Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that’s about to change.
Knight’s Shadow
by Sebastien de Castell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Greatcoats have found the heir to the throne . . . but now they must keep her alive, against all the odds.
That would be simple enough, if it weren’t for the renegade Knights and legendary Dashini assassins, getting in their way, not to mention the Dukes, who are desperate to hold on to their power at any cost, or Trin, the merciless daughter of the ruthless Duke of Rijou and the cruel Duchess of Hervor, who is determined to be Queen of Tristia. Of course, the fact that the heir to the throne is thirteen years old doesn’t help, nor the fact that every day brings Falcio closer to dying from the poison running through his veins.
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(Greatcoats Mysteries)
The Hunt
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York.
But that’s not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with.
Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina’s foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy divorce. But LA is no escape from her problems—she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly. When she wakes, barely conscious, Teresa discovers that both of her children are gone and frantically calls Gabe for help.
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(Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mysteries)
The Inmate
by Freida McFadden
Rating: 4.4 #ad
There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
Never reveal any personal information.
Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.
But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.